Character Quote by Mark Ravenhill

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

— Simon McBurney

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer…

— Romain Rolland

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't…

— Brian Cox

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who…

— Juliet Stevenson

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

— Audrey Tautou

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

— Clive Rowe

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

— Adrienne Shelly

Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that…

— Norman Lock

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

— Augusto Boal

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by…

— George C. Wolfe